Originally Posted by
Knobcrk1
Well in places like Sweden and Japan when cases were high, the stores and streets were almost empty even though restrictions were basically just recommendations. I’m pretty sure fundamentally you can’t have an economy with a pandemic raging, there needs to be confidence from the communities that at least there’s some control over it including use of health mandates.
It’s still an historically minor plague. The Black Death killed over 25% of the English population, which created an entirely new economy, transferred wealth from the rich to the poor as farm labor turned scarce; developed estate law that existed to this day. The Justinian plague of the 6th century, killed similar percentages, weakened both the Persian and eastern Roman Empires and led to the rise of Islam. European diseases brought to America wiped out the native population. This “pandemic” has a population fatality rate of 0.163%. Not exactly shattering the civilization.